Semiconductor Industry Vision: weVISION

Intel's Director of Process Architecture and Integration and Senior Fellow, Mark Bohr, made many appearances over the years to discuss major technical innovations the had made.

IBM Vice President in charge of driving IBM's world-wide semiconductor and hardware research agenda, Dr. Mukesh Khare discussed Big Data and AI ... or Artificial Intelligence... and why are they so important?

Applied Materials Managing Director of Memory and Materials Technologies, Er-Xuan Ping, discussed developments in new memory.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES' CEO, Tom Caulfield, talked about new business models and the slowing of Moore's Law.

VLSIresearch CEO, G Dan Hutcheson on why Fabless M&A got so hot and why it's no surprise, with the typical timing between an industry's start-up phase and its mass-consolidation is around 20 years.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini, discussed how he led the company and the world to shift focus from performance to mobility and finish on Intel's move from selling chips to customer experience. He answers some tough questions about adjusting from a world of fixed PCs to one of smartphones.

NIST's Deputy Director of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at NIST, Dr. Carl Williams, laid out how the science of quantum mechanics will is as revolutionary as the semiconductor and classical computing.

Mentor, a Siemens business, President and CEO, Wally Rhines talked about the new wave of growth in the semiconductor industry from new technology and the China factor.

Nvidia Vice President of its Wafer Foundry Group and Global Operations, John Chen, came to talk about the strengths and weaknesses of new device structures like FinFET and FDSOI. He also examined the question of Moore's Law slowing.

Intel Chairman of the Board, Andy Bryant, talked about Moore's Law and how it is the business model that drives value in the semiconductor industry.

Intel's Jackie Sturm, VP of Technology & Manufacturing Group and GM of Global Sourcing & Procurement, discussed how they approached solving the problem Conflict Minerals in the Supply Chain.